polytekton

polytekton was hired by the Valparaiso University Brauer Museum of Art to design the exhibition catalogue for David Robert Austen. The resulting book, Being Australian Under A Southern Sun: All I Really Know Is What I See was published by the Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University on September […]

We just completed the final version of architect and scholar Daniel Naegele’s Guide to the Only Good Architecture in Iowa, a book Professor of Architecture Mary McLeod calls “a pure delight [that shows] not only Naegele’s deep knowledge of the architecture and material culture of [Iowa], but also his marvelous […]

Here is an update to Francesco Careri’s Walkscapes book that is forthcoming from Culicidae Architectural Press in December. In the new version I have shifted the color palette from red to sepia, reflecting the historical photograph. However, in the end the author preferred the more traditional cover that borrows from […]

We were tasked with designing a logo for the newly established Musca Press, an imprint of Culicidae Press. Since ‘musca’ means fly in Latin, our first move was to consider wings of flies that might be incorporated into the design (see samples below). The we worked on the typography, considering […]

Four minutes and three seconds of practice by members of the Iowa State University Percussion Wind Ensemble recorded BEFORE the actual concert on 26 October, 2016 in Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall. I love the randomness of each musician going through their lines as they do a last-minute practice session in […]

File under Observation From my fourth-year architecture studio, located currently in the Communications building north of the Armory on the Iowa State University campus, I’m walking at the end of the day past the construction site of the Student Innovation Center which is going up north of Hoover and south […]

Working on an updated cover for Ben Jacks’ forthcoming book A House and its Atmosphere via Culicidae Architectural Press with a blurb by David Leatherbarrow, Professor and Chair of the Graduate Group in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Client: Culicidae Architectural Press Project: Book Cover

Miriam Zach, the Charles and Mary Sukup Endowed Artist in Organ, tasked us with the design for a poster of a lecture/recital at which she presents music by Roman composers to students who plan to spend the Spring semester 2018 in the eternal city to study architecture. The event will […]

Final version of cover as published. This summer we were tasked by Culicidae Press to design a cover for a forthcoming book by Rachel Odhner Longstaff called In the Shadow of the Dragon’s Back: A Young American Girl in South Africa During the Early Years of Apartheid. The book is […]

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Find us in Ames, Iowa at
922 5th Street, a stone's throw west from Wheatsfield Cooperative Grocery. We inhabit the third house on the south side going west on 5th Street.
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